Colliding Water Drops

[Shannon Beauford]

I've been getting asked alot how I did my colliding water drops. First off, there is a really good tutorial here http://richallen.deviantart.com/gallery/#/ds1l3n

All I used was my camera on a tripod, a remote shutter release, a hotshoe flash and a medicine dropper.

My mediocre setup from last night
http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/8956/img5742.jpg

it doesn't show in the picture, but I also taped down the sides of the dropper brace so it wouldn't move and the drops would hit the same place everytime.

I squeezed out a few drops of water or milk at a time and firing the camera a split second later. Takes awhile to get the timing down. I took alot of shots before even getting one to collide.

I hope this helps a little. It takes alot of time and practice to get the timing right. I've been attempting to get colliding water drops for a long time before I finally got my timing down lastnight. and now that I have it figured out I know they'll only get better from here.

Good Luck!

[Brenda Ashley]

your a legend , i will give it ago one day ..
Love ur set up shot lol great idea

looking forward to more from u

[Tracy Watkins]

Thanks for all this info.. I love water shots so I am going to try your technique soon..

[Jeff O]

I find it more amazing you are doing this manually and not using triggers. Great job.

[Wu]

Awesome tutorial

and I'm with Jeff O..pretty amazing that you're doing it manually